The collegiate model

Our colleges are being used for people to buy into the most desirable jobs. This enables the rich to pursue jobs that are nearly unattainable for the poor. It also puts more financial strain on those who wish to pursue pretty much anything worth pursuing, which is creating a student loan crisis.


As I have repeatedly stated, there is nothing that can be learned in school that can't be learned elsewhere. This includes college. We have embraced active discriminatory policies against everyone who learns free from the restrictive schooling environment. This creates a society where what you learn is not nearly as important as where you learn it.

Businesses prefer college graduates over high school graduates. They like prestigious schools more than schools that have not yet been established as quality institutions. They like post graduate work more than more affordable degrees.

A lot of business demands come down to simplifying the hiring process. If they embrace schooling certifications, they can quickly filter their applications. Instead of finding the most qualified out of 100 applicants, they would prefer to look at 10 applications that look best in regards to schooling. And if they can no longer get 10? They're not going to change because they feel that would require lowering their standards.

In recent years, we hear more and more about the student loan crisis. There are a lot of people carrying debt from their college years. With increasing tuition costs, the debt is becoming more difficult to manage.

A lot of people want to address the student loan crisis by making college more affordable. The problem with this approach is that it would take even more for applicants to stand out. Jobs that require college would start requiring more prestigious colleges or even post graduate work. Both of these things result in an even more expensive buy in.

As people would start taking out loans for more expensive schooling, what would happen next? Would we insist that more expensive options should be affordable? That would be a similar situation. Standing out to potential employers would be even more expensive.

Perhaps increasing the strain on the poorest college students is not the ideal solution to addressing that strain. So what do we do? We have to open society up to alternatives. We need to bring our discriminatory practices to an end. We need to allow highly capable individuals to contribute to society even if they didn't sell their souls to a corrupt schooling system. We need to allow people to prove their abilities.